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Some Recent Criticisms of the Dimensional Analysis of Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. J. Eysenck
H. J. Eysenck*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry (Maudsley Hospital), University of London
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In recent issues of The Journal of Mental Science there have appeared two critical papers (5, 7) dealing with some aspects of the dimensional analysis of personality which the writer has put forward. As replies to these papers separately would seem to require a good deal of repetition, it seemed better to frame a joint reply. This has been kept rather short on purpose, primarily because the writer does not believe that arguments are very helpful to the advancement of science, unless they are accompanied by new data of an experimental kind. In the main, therefore, this reply has restricted itself to simply pointing out that many of the points raised are factually incorrect, or, although they might be correct in themselves, are not relevant to the theory they are criticizing.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 438 , January 1959 , pp. 220 - 223
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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